Comments on: for new ESL learners, what would be a good sequence of topics to start with.ABC’s, numbers, etc? http://www.englishoverseas.com/blog/for-new-esl-learners-what-would-be-a-good-sequence-of-topics-to-start-withabcs-numbers-etc/ Thu, 17 May 2012 17:32:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Five0 http://www.englishoverseas.com/blog/for-new-esl-learners-what-would-be-a-good-sequence-of-topics-to-start-withabcs-numbers-etc/comment-page-1/#comment-998 Five0 Sat, 26 Sep 2009 13:49:37 +0000 http://www.englishoverseas.com/blog/for-new-esl-learners-what-would-be-a-good-sequence-of-topics-to-start-withabcs-numbers-etc/#comment-998 You may want to start with simple words like: hello, goodbye, good morning, etc. ABCs are very abstract with little meaning. English speaking preschoolers learn their ABCs because they already know the language and can start associating the sounds to the letters. With Japanese preschoolers, they have no background knowledge in English words so the alphabet has no meaning to them. When an English speaking person learns Japanese for the first time, we are taught Japanese words and eventually taught the Kanji to relate to the words. You could start with colors and numbers since this can be related to what they already know in Japanese.<a href="http://www.ihearclear.com/sudden-hearing-loss.htm"> Five0</a> You may want to start with simple words like: hello, goodbye, good morning, etc.

ABCs are very abstract with little meaning. English speaking preschoolers learn their ABCs because they already know the language and can start associating the sounds to the letters. With Japanese preschoolers, they have no background knowledge in English words so the alphabet has no meaning to them.

When an English speaking person learns Japanese for the first time, we are taught Japanese words and eventually taught the Kanji to relate to the words.

You could start with colors and numbers since this can be related to what they already know in Japanese. Five0

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